John C Nash wrote: > For some benchmarking tests I want to do, I'd like to be able to use > command line tools to get the following information (not only for Linux > -- my tests will be on Mac and PC too, but that will come later): > > - OS version, by which I mean not just the "uname -a" stuff, but also > whether I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny. > - Processor (uname seems to be a bit sketchy on this) > - RAM installed (Is free good enough? It needs interpretation. I'd like > RAM available to the application I'm running.) > - possibly other stuff
I think you can get most of this information with Perl, using the Sys::Info module (http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Sys::Info). I haven't used it myself, but based on the docs it should support most UNIX and Windows flavours. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
